{"product_id":"thrown-in-the-throat-9781571315212","title":"Thrown in the Throat","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Tongues make mistakes \/ and mistakes \/ make languages.\"\u003c\/b\u003e And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with \u003ci\u003eThrown in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship, family, and Adam Rippon's butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented, one speaker recalls nights when \"because we cannot sleep \/ we dream with open eyes.\" Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country's long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, \u003ci\u003eThrown in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. \"Sometimes even a diamond was once alive\" writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says \"has deadly superpowers.\" And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex, unabashed, and needed as survival. Garcia's debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Benjamin Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660153286812,"sku":"9781571315212","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b656c65c-884b-4088-b5ae-c57537ae510f.jpg?v=1603896211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thrown-in-the-throat-9781571315212","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}